Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s criminal history and her hypocrisy with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

Julia Gillard had criminal allegations made against her in 1995 when she was accused of helping her boyfriend steal over $1,000,000 from the Australian Workers Union (AWU) and helping him spend the money on such things as her personal home renovations and dresses.

Julia Gillard has never denied helping him rip off the $1,000,000 plus dollars, what she has done is denied doing it knowingly. Her part was helping set up an account called the “Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association” and possibly other accounts that the money was laundered through when she was a lawyer working for Slater and Gordon who were the solicitors representing the Australian Workers Union.

The allegations against Julia Gillard were initially raised in the Victorian Parliament in 1995.

In an interview with Glenn Milne of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph in 2007 Julia Gillard said:

“These matters happened between 12 and 15 years ago,” Ms Gillard told The Sunday Telegraph. “I was young and naive.”

“I was in a relationship, which I ended, and obviously it was all very distressing. I am by no means the first person to find out that someone close turns out to be different to what you had believed them to be. It’s an ordinary human error.

“I was obviously hurt when I was later falsely accused publicly of wrong-doing. I didn’t do anything wrong and to have false allegations in the media was distressing.”

I will dissect Julia Gillard’s above comments later in the post because they beggar belief and raise more questions than they answer. But the part that would stand out at this point for anyone who has been following the Julian Assange and WikiLeaks matters over the past 10 months or so is the part where Julia Gillard whinges “to have false allegations in the media was distressing” which is exactly what Julia Gillard did to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange at the end of last year when she falsely said their actions were illegal.

In this post I will cover:

1. Julia Gillard’s part in ripping off the AWU for over $1,000,000

2. Julia Gillard’s hypocrisy in relation to her allegations of illegal conduct by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.

To appreciate how Julia Gillard’s answers she gave in the 2007 interview beggar belief it is important to have some knowledge of what happened when she helped Bruce Wilson steal from the AWU. A brief outline is below.

The way the scam worked is best set out in another article by Glenn Milne where it starts off:

“THE con used by Julia Gillard’s former lover to cream off possibly more than $1 million was simple and backed by standover tactics.

As union secretary, Bruce Morton Wilson would go on to construction sites and tell bosses they “needed” an industrial agreement which he would negotiate.

But there was a price – they would have to purchase hundreds of AWU membership tickets in exchange for the industrial peace guaranteed by the “agreement”.

However, when the employers made out the cheques – sometimes for more than $50,000 at a time – the money for memberships that never existed would go into phony AWU accounts that actually belonged to Wilson.” (Click here to read the full article)

The scam seems to have first started in Western Australia when Bruce Wilson was State Secretary of the AWU and he had already set up two bogus accounts to funnel the money through. He later moved to Victoria to become State Secretary for both Victoria and Western Australia.

By this time Julia Gillard and Bruce Wilson were in a sexual relationship and Julia Gillard should have stopped representing the AWU as there was a clear conflict of interest.

Bruce Wilson had Julia Gillard set up the account named “AWU Members Welfare Association No 1 Account”.

The AWU management claimed they knew nothing about the accounts and when they found out the joint national secretary Ian Cambridge put a freeze on the accounts. Somehow money kept on going in and out of the accounts.

Some of the money was also used to buy a house and Ian Cambridge put a caveat on the house so it could not be sold. Again the house was sold and the money disappeared.

From here we will go to the transcript from the Victorian Government Hansard where it says on the 12th of October 1995:

Mr GUDE (Minister for Industry and Employment)

“I understand the AWU is still receiving bills for strange items ordered by Mr Wilson. All attempts thus far to find him have come to nothing. What did Mr Wilson do when he found out that his actions had been discovered? The first thing he did was to seek legal advice from the union’s solicitors, none other than Slater and Gordon. From whom did he receive that advice? One Julia Gillard.

I am informed that Ms Gillard is no longer with Slater and Gordon due to commitments as an ALP Senate candidate. That may not be the only reason she is no longer working at Slater and Gordon.”

“Mr Gude — Consistent with the provisions of the legislation I am informed that the first thing Ms Gillard did, when asked what she would be doing and why she was getting out of Slater and Gordon, was to pay back moneys to the AWU for work” (Click here to read the rest)

Julia Gillard is alleged to have ripped off $57,500 for herself. Of which $17,500 was spent on clothing at Town Mode, which was a women’s fashion house in Melbourne. Mr Cambridge has given evidence about the likely proceeds of this. And $40,000 was spent on renovations to her house in Melbourne. This shows up in the Victorian Parliament Hansard on the28th February 2001 and the2nd May 2001.

In January 1996 “Mr Cambridge wrote to the then Federal Minister for Industrial Relations, Mr Laurie Brereton, seeking a royal commission into the AWU – just as the Prime Minister, Mr Paul Keating, called an election.” (Click here to read the full article)

Not long after Robert F. Smith, branch secretary at the AWU wrote a letter to Steve Harrison who along with Ian Cambridge was joint national secretary of the AWU.

The letter is in the Victorian Government Hansard and starts off:

Dear Steve,

Further to our telephone discussion this morning, I propose the following resolution to be put to national executive next month.

As we have discussed, you know as well as I do that if Cambridge is not stopped we are all history. I have spoken to Bill Kelty and Jennie George, and they are supportive of this course of action. Both you and I can work the phones before the national executive meeting to make sure we have the numbers before this motion is put. I have already spoken to a number of national executive and they are very nervous to say the least. Please ring when you have considered my proposal.

The Hansard goes on to say: By the way, there was neither a judicial inquiry nor a royal commission. Cambridge was appointed to the New South Wales Industrial Relations Court. I call for a full, open judicial inquiry. The other addressees on the letter were Bill Shorten, Terry Muscat, Graham Ray and Frank Leo. (Click here to read the full letter).

The above shows Julia Gillard being party to fraud, blackmail, money laundering and extortion etc. She claims to have not done it knowingly.

Now back to the 2007 Julia Gillard interview with Glenn Milne.

Julia Gillard “strenuously denied ever knowing what the association’s bank accounts were used for”. For Julia Gillard to say that is a breach of lawyer-client confidentiality, but since she is prepared to say that she should also be prepared to answer other questions on the matter. It also is not believable as the first thing a lawyer would do when a client wants to set up a new association is ask what it going to used for so the lawyer makes sure they are giving the right advice and setting it up correctly. Is Julia Gillard saying she was also derelict in her duty and did not ask.

Julia Gillard said:“These matters happened between 12 and 15 years ago,” “I was young and naive.” Well Julia Gillard was a partner at the law firm Slater and Gordon and in her mid thirties. Slater and Gordon are not in the habit of appointing young and naive people as partners and being in her mid thirties hardly made her young.

Julia Gillard said: “I was in a relationship, which I ended, and obviously it was all very distressing. I am by no means the first person to find out that someone close turns out to be different to what you had believed them to be. It’s an ordinary human error.” This is crap. Once Julia Gillard started having a sexual relationship with Bruce Wilson she should have stopped representing the AWU as they were the client not Bruce Wilson. It is a huge conflict of interest.

Julia Gillard said “I was obviously hurt when I was later falsely accused publicly of wrong-doing. I didn’t do anything wrong and to have false allegations in the media was distressing.” Well Julia Gillard was more than happy to falsely accuse Julian Assange and WikiLeaks of breaking Australian laws. It does not get much more hypocritical than that.

Both Bill Shorten and Jennie George who are mentioned above, and went on to become Federal Politicians, helped Julia Gillard become Prime Minister while they both were well aware of her history and helped cover it up.

Ian Cambridge as mentioned above became a Commissioner at the NSW Industrial Relations Commission in 1997. In 2009 Julia Gillard as Minister for Industrial Relations personally appointed Ian Cambridge as dual appointee to Fair Work Australia. I find this disturbing. While it could be argued that other Commissioners of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission were also given dual appointments at the same time they had not previously called for a Royal Commission into criminal conduct by Julia Gillard and her boyfriend Bruce Wilson.

Julia Gillard should never have appointed him and if Ian Cambridge had any self-respect he should not have accepted the position. It could be construed by some that Ian Cambridge has taken a bribe to keep his mouth shut about her criminal past.

I also do notice that the Australian Mines and Metals Association has documented Julia Gillard stacking the bench at Fair Work Australia with her union mates. (Click here to read).

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange

On December 2, 2010 Julia Gillard said in relation to the United States diplomatic cables leak (Cablegate): “I absolutely condemn the placement of this information on the WikiLeaks website – it’s a grossly irresponsible thing to do and an illegal thing to do.” Yet when she was asked what laws had been breached she could not name any. Even so she still refered the matter to the Australian Federal Police for investigation. The Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland supported Julia Gillard although he was not as stupid to go as far and he said that they had likely broken the law “The unauthorised obtaining of the information may well be an offence” but he also failed to name what laws had been breached.

When Julia Gillard and Robert McClelland refered the complaint to the Australian Federal Police it should have been fully documented. They should tender those documents to parliament or the media so we can see what laws they believed that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange breached.

If they can not name the particular law or laws and what evidence they had that supported the crime than there is a very powerful prima facie case to have both Julia Gillard and Robert McClelland charged for conspiring to have someone falsely charged and making a false complaint to the police.

These are covered by section 41 of the 1914 Crimes Act and section 137.1 of the 1995 Criminal Code which are set out below. Even though WikiLeaks and Julian Assange were not charged section 41 of the 1914 crimes act still applies as even if “charging a person falsely pursuant to the agreement is impossible” they can still be found guilty which is covered by section 41(3)(a).

Crimes Act 1914

41 Conspiracy to bring false accusation

(1) Any person who conspires with another to charge any person falsely or cause any person to be falsely charged with any offence against the law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, shall be guilty of an indictable offence.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

(3) A person may be found guilty of an offence against subsection (1) even if:

(a) charging a person falsely pursuant to the agreement is impossible; or

Criminal Code Act 1995

Division 137—False or misleading information or documents

137.1 False or misleading information

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a) the person gives information to another person; and

(b) the person does so knowing that the information:

(i) is false or misleading; or

(ii) omits any matter or thing without which the information is misleading; and

(c) any of the following subparagraphs applies:

(i) the information is given to a Commonwealth entity;

(ii) the information is given to a person who is exercising powers or performing functions under, or in connection with, a law of the Commonwealth;

Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.

Julian Assange was quoted as saying that the Australian public should consider charging Julia Gillard with treason when he was on the ABC Q&A program on the 14th of March 2011. Whether that could be justified I do not know. But certainly having Julia Gillard and Robert McClelland charged with the two laws I mention above could be sustained.

It is worth noting thatsection 13 of the 1914 Crimes Actempowers every Australian to institute criminal proceeding so there is no need to wait for the police who of course would never do it.

When Robert McClelland was asked about the Federal Police investigation on the 10th December 2010 he alluded that the police investigation could take a long time and he referred to the Godwin Grech investigation as an example. This is fairly standard for the Australian Federal Police to drag it out for as long as possible than quietly sweep it under the carpet when the media attention has gone.

But the Federal Police announced only one week later that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange had breached no Australian laws. Lo and behold that was the same day Dr Muhamed Haneef flew into town.

Who is Dr Haneef and what was he doing in Australia? He was here for a mediation meeting with the Federal Government on the 20th of December 2010 to settle a multi million dollar claim for wrongful arrest and detention in 2007.

This is what it says on Wikipedia: “During the 2008 inquiry into the Haneef affair, documents have revealed that former Prime Minister John Howard became involved in the case within 48 hours of Haneef’s arrest. Lawyers in the case have suggested that the early involvement of the Prime Minister mean that John Howard colluded with Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews to politicise the issue.” (Click here to read more)

So they had a senior Federal Police Officer, Commander Ramzi Jabbour, come over the top and charge him which is basically unheard of that leads one to believe it was being driven from the top. This it what it says on Wikipedia: “The Manager Counter Terrorism Domestic, Commander Ramzi Jabbour, had lost objectivity and was “unable to see that the evidence he regarded as highly incriminating in fact amounted to very little”.

Given the Dr Haneef scandal Julia Gillard should have known better than to level the claims she did against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and then refer it to the Federal Police. It is worth noting that she has never apologised to Julian Assange or WikiLeaks for making false allegations against them.

In summary Julia Gillard is not up to being Prime Minister of Australia. Julia Gillard is a qualified lawyer and you only have to read the above to realise that she is not much of lawyer let alone a Prime Minister.

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I have just deleted previous comments and opened the comments section again on this post for two reasons. 1. Things have changed a lot since I published this post on the 7th August 2011 and 2. The comment section was originally spammed a lot. All future comments will stay.

The Advertiser, Saturday April 21 published a story about the AG Nicola Roxon denying she knew that Assange’s lawyer was on a travel watch list and will require special approval to return to Australia. This is very bad if any lawyer engaged to represent and Australian citizen needs authority to enter that person’s country of birth So apparently Australia has a watch list as well as the US. At least they are open about it because up to now I did not realise that such a list existed.

The lawyer you are talking about is Jennifer Robinson and she is an Australian who was leaving Heathrow airport in the UK. So why would she need clearance to return to Australia. Very weird happenings to say the least. One might suspect that the US put her on their watch list which was confused by the UK authorities

Does anyone else think that if we had a Governor-General who was interested in more than flower arrangement and wearing big hats this would be a John Kerr moment? The longer we don’t have an election the longer we suffer paralyzed government, and worse, a flowering of the cult of personality in the Labor side that would even irritate Jo Stalin.

Hi Paul, the Governor General has been involved in the Heiner affair, other implicated include Kevin Rudd (the person who appointed her as GG) and Queensland Labor MP’s and even previous Labor Premiers. She is a Union plant. It is all quite weird, not the least being her son in law is Bill Shorten. If you read Noel Pearsons article in the Weekend Australian on his strategy to get the primeministership, you would see that Quentin Bryce does more than just arrange flowers.

The GG has no authority to remove a PM or govt unless certain conditions are met,and they are normally when a govt can no longer govern,either they don’t have the numbers in the House of Reps or Supply has been stopped.

Was this not about the same time as there was hell being sought at the same time as the Murdoch furore?

We all have a name for this?

This woman is not fit to be a lawyer, let alone a leader of this fine country.

For Queenslanders we get the next hit.

24 March 2012 should go down in history as the day that the ALP is removed from Qld political history. They have ripped off this state for a very long time. The current members p.ss on the memory of those there beneath the Tree of Knowledge in Barcaldine.

VOTE 1,2,3,4 and 5 for the LNP and put the ALP last. We need a change.

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/julian-assange-deserves-a-fair-trial-not-this-crap/
Liberal MP writes:
“The evolving plan to bump Assange along legal systems to get him in front of a US grand jury is disappointing. If the US believes an Australian citizen has a case to answer, at least be upfront about it. If Assange has done anything more than offend the powerful few, it is time for that case to be fully elaborated and heard by a truly independent judiciary.”

hardly surprising as a corrupt past is a prerequisite for becoming powerful in this country.
If you succeed in destroying some part of the society i.e introducing a carbon tax, you’ll be rewarded. If not, your past is somehow “uncovered” where you can be hung out to dry, humiliated and then given a job with Macquarie Bank – hah
Damned if you do…blah blah blah

Nothing surprises me with this woman. She’ll possibley go down in history as the most devious and untrustworthy person in the Public Service ever in Australia and I cringe very time she steps up on the world stage. I hope the rest of the world does not consider that she is a credible example on womanhood in Australia. Kevin Rudd is a choir boy compared to her and her antics.

Julia Gillard is still the PM ,who has so brazenly stood up as a picture of innocence and being so instrumental in the manipulation of others and getting away with it. Nobody seemingly is capable of her removal in the disgrace she deserves. Why is that so?
Corruption, collusion, conspiracy and greed fit every line contained in this article, but nobody is doing anything about it. The Labor party has succeeded in hoodwinking it’s followers to believe that my parents always voted Labor and I will follow in their footsteps. They cannot see that they approve of and condone the action of the Trade Union front bench faction, in the manipulation they continue to follow. Julian Assange is to be commended for his stand but it is a pity that others are not following suit. Bring Julia before the courts and to goal where she belongs.

ROB, AND SHE HAS THE CHEEK TO SAY TO THE ELECTORATE “WHO DO YOU TRUST ME OR TONY ABBOTT” IT IS UNPRINTABLE WHAT MOST AUSTRALIANS THOUGHT WHEN THEY HEARD THOSE WORDS.
MILLIONS OF BASEBALL BATS ARE BEING POLISHED JUST WAITING FOR ELECTION DAY IT CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH

You need to include 2 important things:
1. That a sworn affadafit was signed last year swearing that these allegations were TRUE
2. That Gillard personally had online news articles which had scans of the affadafit removed

While I agree with comments re PM(S) Gillard, and yes it is hypocrisy re Wikileaks . But that doesn’t make wiki leaks acceptable as I cannot condone the release of information re military actions/names etc. Information that the rest of the world doesn’t need to know about our government because it is not always in the best interest of Australia or Australians – such blatant abuse of freedom of speech is part of th reason Australians are losing their rights under the duplcity of discrimination.

“Mr Gude — Consistent with the provisions of the legislation I am informed that the first thing Ms Gillard did, when asked what she would be doing and why she was getting out of Slater and Gordon, was to pay back moneys to the AWU for work”.
Pay back?
This was money raised by extortion. It did not belong to the union.
It seems the union was able to keep the provably extorted money.

I heard the Wilson/Gillard story on 2GB this morning. This will not go away. She really is an old whore and an alleged thief. But, her photo will end up in the hallowed halls of parliament alongside decent men and woman of all parties. How sad. Were both Wilson and Emerson and whoever else married when the poor naive Gillard had her romantic liaisons with them.

Why hasn’t Wikileaks and Assange covered Julia Gillard’s murky past? Surely this is right up their alley and offers Assange some payback as well! If it is true then it should be easy for Wikileaks to attack.

It is the front page of The Australian today wher it says:
THE former union official and alleged bagman for a financial scandal linked to the then boyfriend of Julia Gillard wants to give evidence for the first time to police and prosecutors about his role and the conduct of others.

The Australian can reveal that Ralph Blewitt, a one-time branch head for the Australian Workers Union, is seeking immunity from criminal prosecution in return for breaking a 17-year silence and providing a statement to police.

How do you think she got to become Governer General, you scratch my back and I will scratch yours. This went all the way from Anna Bligh to the G.G. and Gillard.Thank goodness people are starting to see the light.

Keep an eye on the mike smith interview with alan jones you posted on YouTube Shane. It is not there now. I tried looking for it under the names “alan jones”, and “mike smith 2ue” along with also “mike smith interview” and its not there now on all of them. Maybe it has been taken off by one of Gillards cronies by finding out that interview is on YouTube for many people to listen to. If that’s the case Julia Gillard is trying everything she can to silence the people who are reporting the truth in the media and websites. Gillard is a very nasty woman if she and her government are doing this. I hope that the smith/jones interview is still on YouTube.

Please pay attention to how Gillard shuts opponents: She said she was not getting into specifics about issues 17 years ago ”when you are not able to put to me any contention about why this is relevant to my conduct as prime minister today”.

WHY IS IT RELEVANT TO HER CONDUCT AS PM TODAY – BECAUSE PAST BEHAVIOURS ARE BEST PREDICTORS OF FUTURE BEHAVIOURS as proven by mounting scientifc research and as all psychologists and psychioatrists know. and as we all know and see now because Gillard lied so many times and her lies weren’t little white lies but she called them pledges at the time she made them to Australian people. Did someone also instruct her to lie then and now? It is probable as a) past behavior predicts future behaviour, and b) she does not seem to be able to show integrity on most issues, bringing us back to a). So, next time Gillard asks how is her past relevant to her conduct as PM – it explains her lies, shifty and evasive verbal responses, backstabbing tactics, all of which individually and collectively are not good qualities for a PM.

Relevance to how she performs today is immaterial. If you are made prime minister today and it is later found out you have a criminal past that no one knew about before because there had been a number of cover ups, then you have to answer for that now. Enough said

I have questions no one seems to have asked her. If she was in a relationship with Wilson when the slush fund was being set up, was he already a home owner with no mortgage. She would have known this at the time. So anyway soon after he is suddenly able to buy a house outright which she did the conveyancing for. So she would have known there was no mortgage registered. So how did Wilson suddenly explain the large windfall to Gillard. I’m assuming there’s a windfall, most likely people who own a house outright don’t risk everything setting up an extortion racket.

Julia Gillard is a really bad liar. She is obvious when she is telling a lie and arrogant and dismissive when questioned about her credibility. No one but no one can deny this fact. From the imfamous lie about the carbon tax to defending craig thompson, she has no moral backbone and way to much baggage.Regardless of what can now be proved she will never be embrased by the public, and that’s why we will see another leadership tilt shortly.

This whole event has shown just how important that a prime minister must have integrity and a clean past! She is a hypocrite and this makes our whole political system a joke! Don’t worry about the baseball bats lets get the D9 started!

JULIAN ASSANGE has been detained six years without charge it must end and him brought back to Australia.,’ ‘It’s time for the Australian government to make a stance and stand up for an aussie patriots human and legal rights.’ -As an Australian citizen I find the silence from both parties indicates a complete lack of sovereignty in that they’re not willing to stand up for truth, justice or human rights – He is a victim of arbitrary detention. He should be freed and entitled to compensation and most importantly freedom and family – Assange is nothing more than a “political prisoner. “I hope that in light of his great service towards freedom and truth President Donald Trump will seriously consider granting a full presidential pardon,” U.S authorities have not charged Assange with any crime, nor have Australian officials. I hope that the government of Australia has taken notice and will no longer continue to assist in the shameful imprisonment of an Australian hero,” Australia have failed greatly to protect whistle blowers. We should be supporting those with the courage to do what is right, and expose corruption of any kind. The media is now a “mouth piece for out of touch elites and the political establishment. Assange is an Australian who has stood up for the public’s right to know, for freedom of information,” Mr. Assange has shone a bright light on the corruption of those who presume to rule us. Mr. Assange must be granted a presidential pardon absolving him of any crimes alleged against him. He is a hero and must be honoured as such.

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